Congratulations on yet another serious, in-depth piece of big-city reporting by your students at Neon Tommy.

You really have blown up the dreary old j-school model of “art project reporting” and your gang is cranking out robust, timely journalism. Great work.

Comic books are good for children’s learning
Parents should not “look down” on comics as they are just as good for children as reading books, a new study claims.

…Professor Carol Tilley, from the department of library and information science, said that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, and children benefit from reading them at least as much as they do from reading other kinds of books.

She said there was evidence that they increased their vocabulary and instilled a love of reading.

She said: “A lot of the criticism of comics and comic books come from people who think that kids are just looking at the pictures and not putting them together with the words. ….

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Neon Tommy could use more pictures to reach mainstream America.

Easy to say if you are lucky enough to have born healthy, and remained so. If you are one of us who has diabetes, arthritis, juvenile arthritis, or pretty much any condition that requires medication, your immune system will always be susceptible to flu strains. Proper diet and system build up is not the be all end all for some of us.

“How many people die from seasonal flu each year in the United States?

The number of seasonal influenza-associated (i.e., seasonal flu-related) deaths varies from year to year because flu seasons often fluctuate in length and severity. CDC estimated that about 36,000 people died of seasonal flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States…”

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-
related_deaths.htm

So far the swine flu has killed 5000 world wide by the middle of October.

Even without adjuvants there is a fair dose of mercury in them.

Lancet, New England Journal etc contradict the trumped up stats and correct them with facts as does the CDC’s own website.

One must be very careful before jumping on this hyped up bandwagon of hysteria.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/31/CDC-Says-Kids-That-Die-From-Swine-Flu-Have-Coexisting-Bacterial-Infections.aspx

EAT YOUR HEART OUT FRANK CAPRA

GRAYSON FOR PRESIDENT…HE IS THE GUY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-alan-grayson/how-the-republicans-faile_b_347237.html